On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Wait a minute... Isn't that how you get past newbie status?
You make a thousand expensive mistakes and spend thousands of hours trying to recover from them, interfering with your work, your sleep, your marriage..., until one day you have accidentally absorbed enough knowledge -- or enough hard knocks -- that you begin to recognize connections and causes and effects?
That's not the normal, approved approach?
You mean I've been doing it wrong all this time?
:-)
Yes, Kevin, you have been doing it wrong. The right way is to read (on this list and others) about other people messing up their systems, and learn from trying to help them get their comps back in working order. Or, in other words: Keep your system safe and learn from others' mistakes. :-) Regards Ole